American History Too!

Pulling back the curtain on all the great debates and controversies of American History.

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Episode 44 - Excluded and Interned: The Asian-A...
On Episode 44 of American History Too! we're joined by TWO very special guests - the University of Exeter's Rachel Pistol (@PistolRachel) and the University ...
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Episode 43 - South of the Border: US-Latin Amer...
On Episode 43 of American History Too! we delve into the United States' topsy-turvy relationship with its southern neighbours. The US has had a fascinating and complex ...
53 min
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Episode 42 - The Pioneers: Black Candidates Bef...
On this month's episode we're joined by Lancaster University's politics lecturer Richard Johnson (@richardmarcj) to discuss five pioneering black politicians who ran for election in ...
59 min
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Episode 41 - Anti-Slavery Dynamite: Black Aboli...
(Our guest this month, Hannah Rose Murray, @Hannah_RoseM , frederickdouglassinbritain.com) One spring evening in 1838, formerly enslaved African American Moses Roper spoke to a crowded audience in Leicester, ...
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Episode 40 - Age of Charisma: America’s Magneti...
For Episode 40 of American History Too! we've fired up the Translatlantic cables to chat to Dixie State University's Jeremy Young (@jeremycyoung) about his work on ...
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Episode 39 - Long, Hot Summer: Race Riots in 19...
50 years on from the 'long, hot summer' of 1967 we look back at the race riots that became a common feature of the 1960s ...
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Episode 38 - Suspicious Minds: The Paranoid Cin...
On this month's episode we're joined by Fraser McCallum to discuss the paranoid cinema of the 1970s that emerged in the midst of assassinations, Watergate, ...
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Episode 37 - Private Eye: Allan Pinkerton and t...
On Episode 37 of American History Too! we look at a man and an organisation who encapsulated much of what 19th century America was about: immigration, westward ...
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Episode 36 - With Malice Towards None: The Fasc...
The 16th President of the United States, unlike so many of his fellow nineteenth century White House occupants, has not been lost to History. Indeed, ...
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Episode 35 - In God We Trust? Religion and the ...
On Episode 35 of American History Too! we're joined by the University of Hull's Rachel Williams to discuss the role that religion played in the American Civil ...
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Episode 34 - Insult or Celebration? Debating Bl...
On Episode 34 of American History Too! we're joined by the University of Birmingham's James West (@ejwestuk) to discuss the history of Black History Month and the ...
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Episode 33 - Taken to Church: The CIA and the Y...
On Episode 33 we turn our attentions back to the CIA and pick up where we left off in Episode 31. Joined by the University of ...
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Episode 32 - Overpaid and Oversexed: The US ‘Oc...
In 1942, GIs who were being deployed to Britain were presented with a clear set of official instructions which warned them what they could expect ...
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Episode 31 - Gang of Weirdos: The Roots of CIA ...
World War II is over, the Cold War is just beginning, and the United States is set on winning hearts and minds - and foreign ...
55 min
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Bonus - Donald Ducked: The 2016 Election Special
What it says in the title. It's over and in an attempt to process Trump's shock victory we break down the 2016 election into historical perspective. ...
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Episode 30 - Rockin’ in the Free World: Preside...
On Episode 30 of American History Too! we take a deep dive into the history of music and presidential campaigns in the United States. Joined ...
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Episode 29 - Anti-Slavery Fire: Trans-Atlantic ...
In London on May 22nd 1846, the great anti-slavery campaigner and orator Frederick Douglass - who himself was a former slave – stood before a ...
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Episode 28 - Beyond the Flapper: Women’s Magazi...
In 1921, the influential magazine Literary Digest speculated on the morality and nature of the modern young woman: Is the “old fashioned girl”, with all that ...
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Episode 27 - The Road to Hillary Clinton: The D...
With the Republican convention in Cleveland complete, all eyes turn now to Philadelphia where the Democrats will gather to nominate the first ever woman to ...
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Episode 26 - The Road to Trump: Republicans sin...
Still baffled by Donald Trump's nomination? Be perplexed no more! With the Republican party heading to their convention in Cleveland to nominate the billionaire tycoon, we're ...
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Episode 25 - Brown Bombers and Aryan Supermen: ...
In 1936, not long after German heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling knocked out his African-American opponent, Joe Louis, the journal Der Weltkampf published the following statement: “These ...
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Episode 24 - Banning the Booze: American Prohib...
On January 20th 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - which banned the production, transport, and sale of alcohol - went into effect. ...
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Episode 23 - Secular Electric Jesus: The life a...
In early 1943 – while the Battle of Stalingrad raged thousands of miles away – US government officials explored the hotel room of a recently ...
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Episode 22 - Where’s the Beef? Liberals in Reag...
‘On the 25th of September 1984, in one of the hardest-hitting speeches of his long Presidential campaign against Ronald Reagan, former Vice-President Walter F. Mondale ...
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Episode 21 - Hoover, Damned?
It was a midterm election year, the economy was beginning tolook a bit shaky again, and the Democrats were in danger of losing their majoritiesin ...
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